342) In 1932, even before she had signed a contract with a film studio, she and her family set sail for America. After my seven months in the U.S.A., I had a much clearer picture of what was happening in Germany." (p. "As in a love affair, distance and separation had taught me perspective. She soon realized, however, that she wanted to emigrate to the United States. After the filming was completed, Baum returned to Berlin and her editing position at Ullstein. Grand Hotel was made into a play and in 1931 the filming of this novel brought Baum to Hollywood temporarily. Helene Willfuer and Menschen im Hotel ( Grand Hotel) in 1929. She became a best-selling author with the publicatio n of Stud. After work late at night she wrote novels while her husband was working and her two children were asleep. From 1926 until 1931, she worked as an editor for the magazine Uhu published by Ullstein Verlag in Berlin. While working as a harpist, she ghost wrote for her first husband, Max Prels, and later wrote novels at night during the financially insecure first years of her second marriage to conductor Richard Lert. As a young girl, she began writing and won prizes for her short stories but her literary career had a gradual start. She played the harp professionally until 1916. She was born in Vienna and at fifteen, began working as a professional musician with the Vienna Konzertverein. Vicki Baum, unlike most of the Jewish exiles, came to the United States voluntarily in 1932.
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